Volume of goods transported by lorries grew in the third
quarter of 2017

A total of 80 million tonnes of goods were
transported by lorries in the third quarter of 2017, which was 17
per cent more than in the corresponding quarter in 2016. The volume
of transported soil materials increased by 19 per cent and the
volume of transport for other goods grew by 16 per cent compared to
the corresponding quarter of the year before. These data derive
from the statistics on goods transport by road compiled by
Statistics Finland.

Quarterly volume of goods transported by lorries
in domestic transport

The total transport volume of lorries amounted to 7.0 billion
tonne-kilometres in the third quarter of 2017, which was seven per
cent more than in the corresponding quarter of one year before.
Ninety-three per cent of the transport volume was transported in
professional transport and seven per cent in private transport.

The data for the statistics on goods transport by road are
collected from lorry owners with a quarterly sample survey.
Transported volume of goods refers to the weight of goods loaded on
lorries in tonnes. Tonne-kilometre describes the volume of
transport and is obtained as a product of transported volume of
goods and length of transport journey.